General Statistics Available
University of Michigan Statistical Resources on the Web http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/statsnew.html
National Center for Policy Analysis http://www.ncpa.org/newdpd/index.php
Brookings Institute http://www.brookings.edu/default.htm
Tribal Research Resources
Broad List of Links to Native American Websites http://www.ganondagan.org/links.html
WA Governor's Office on Indian Affairs: Treaties http://www.goia.wa.gov/Treaties/Treaties.htm
WA Governor's Office on Indian Affairs: Tribal Lists http://www.goia.wa.gov/Tribal-Information/
Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission http://www.critfc.org/index.html
Indian Policy and Support Services: WA Social & Health Services http://www1.dshs.wa.gov/ipss/index.htm
National Council of Urban Indian Health http://www.ncuih.org/index.html
Digital Library of Indian Studies http://www.digital-librarian.com/american_indian_studies.html
Traditional and Contemporary Native Culture http://mceweb.cec.umt.edu/tribes/index.html
Institute for Native Americans http://www4.nau.edu/ina/
American Indian Higher Education Consortium http://www.aihec.org/
American Indian Graduate Center & American Indian Professional Association http://www.aigc.com/home.asp
Native American Political Systems and the Evolution of Democracy http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/6Nations/NAPSnEoD.html
Iriquois Democratic Traditions http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/6Nations/grassroots.html
The Six Nations: Oldest Living Democracy on Earth http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/6Nations/index.html
UCLA American Indian Studies Center http://www.aisc.ucla.edu/
Center for American Indian Economic Development http://www.cba.nau.edu/caied/index.asp
Lakota Winter Counts http://wintercounts.si.edu/
Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage http://www.folklife.si.edu/index.html
National Museum of the American Indian http://www.nmai.si.edu/
Early Recognized Treaties with American Indian Nations http://libr.unl.edu:8888/etext/treaties/
U.S. Code Title 25 "Indians." It covers a tremendous amount of regulatory information related to Native Americans and tribes in the U.S. http://www.access.gpo.gov/uscode/title25/title25.html
We the People: American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States — A portrait of the American Indian and Alaska native population in the United States, providing data on the largest specified tribal groupings, reservations, Alaska Native Village Statistical Areas (ANVSAs) and areas outside reservations and ANVSAs at the national level. It is part of a special report series that presents data collected from Census 2000 on demographic, social and economic characteristics.
Internet address: http://www.census.gov/prod/2006pubs/censr-28.pdf
Federal
Statistics from Over 100 U.S. Federal Agencies http://www.fedstats.gov/index.html
Federal Information Resources http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~rse/databases.htm
The U.S. Government official web site http://www.firstgov.gov/
U.S. Government Printing Office Archives of all 3 branches http://www.gpoaccess.gov/
U.S. Code of Federal Regulations http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cfr/index.html
Core Documents of U.S. Democracy http://www.gpoaccess.gov/coredocs.html
U.S. Constitution http://www.gpoaccess.gov/constitution/index.html
U.S. Government Manual http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gmanual/index.html
U.S. Department of Labor http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshoiics.htm
Budget of the United States, FY 2007 http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/index.html
Government Accountability Office (GAO, formerly General Accounting Office) http://www.gao.gov/
You can order their reports and testimonies for free
Liber8, The Research Library of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis http://liber8.stlouisfed.org/
Liber8 is a portal that links to economic information from the Federal Reserve System, government agencies, and international economic data
sources. Included within the Liber8 site is the International Economic Statistics Database. The IES database is a union catalog for international economic
data with individual records for each broad category of economic indicators (GDP, CPI, employment, etc.) from every country with English
language information available. The database is title, country, subject and keyword searchable.
The Civil Rights Documentation Project from the Dirksen Congressional Center http://www.congresslink.org/civilrights/index.htm
Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights (via University of Maryland School of Law)
http://www.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/usccr/index.asp
State of the Union Addresses, 1992 - Present http://www.gpoaccess.gov/sou/index.html
National Priorities Project- Turning Data Into Action http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
Office of Policy, Social Security Administration http://www.ssa.gov/policy/
FRASER: Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/
Waterpower and Reservoir Resources, Bureau of Land Management http://www.blm.gov/nstc/water/water.html
National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections, Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/
Allows you to find information pertaining to manuscripts and collections from former U.S. House and Senate members among them.
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1789 - Present, U.S. Congress http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp
includes biographical information on members from the U.S. House and Senate and information on their papers ( if known).
Poverty Guidelines, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/index.shtml
Head Start Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/hsb/
Office of Refugee Resettlement, Administration for Children and Families, DHHS http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/orr/
The ultimate Political Science Links page http://www.rvc.cc.il.us/faclink/pruckman/PSLinks.htm
From the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard -The Institute of Politics is proud to make available a searchable video archive spanning thirty years of public addresses and panel discussions held in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum (formerly the ARCO Forum of Public Affairs). The archive, featuring nearly 1,200 Forum events on politics, policy, culture, and academic life, will provide rich historical content and context to students, researchers, and citizens from around the world.You can buy a videotape or DVD if you find a really great talk, too - $30 http://ksgaccman.harvard.edu/iop/events_forum_listview.asp
Raw Data from the NationalAtlas.gov http://nationalatlas.gov/atlasftp.html
Contains a myriad of topics in shapefiles so you can create your own maps. You will be to find income and employment information as recent as 2002, poverty & median income, historical maps from the 2000 elections by state and county, crime data, food stamp recipients by county, forest cover types, invasive species, land cover, and much more.
Tulane University Government Affairs Resources http://www.tulane.edu/~govtaff/resources.shtml
Washington
Washington Data Book http://www.ofm.wa.gov/databook/default.asp
State and County QuickFacts: Washington http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/53000lk.html
Washington State Newspapers http://www.secstate.wa.gov/library/newspapers_wsl.aspx
Washington State Library's online catalog at http://www.secstate.wa.gov/library/catalog.aspx
Listing of Washington State Counties http://www.evergreen.edu/library/govdocs/wastate/countygovt.html
Listing of Washington State Cities http://www.evergreen.edu/library/govdocs/wastate/citygovtindex.html
Washington Research Foundation http://www.wrfseattle.org/research_services/research.asp
Census
U.S. Census Bureau http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en
Statistical Abstrat of the U.S. http://www.census.gov/statab/www/
Historical Census Browser http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/
109th Congressional District Summary Files from the Census Bureau http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2005/109th.html
Census Download Center http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/DownloadDatasetServlet?_lang=en
Download raw census data from the U.S. Bureau of the Census
Hurricane Katrina Data from the U.S. Census Bureau http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2005/katrina.htm
U.S. Gazetteer: 2000 and 1990, U.S. Census Bureau http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/gazette.html
Census in Schools http://www.census.gov/dmd/www/teachers.html
Using Data Effectively@Census.gov (Case Studies) http://www.census.gov/mso/www/casestudies/index.html
Census Information on Minorities http://www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/hotlinks.html
Subjects A to Z, U.S. Census Bureau http://www.census.gov/main/www/subjects.html
Census Product Update http://www.census.gov/mp/www/cpu/cpu.html Provides you with links to the latest published census data.
Constitutions
Constitution Finder http://confinder.richmond.edu/
Native American Constitution and Law Digitization Project http://thorpe.ou.edu/
Constitution of the Iriquois http://www.constitution.org/cons/iroquois.htm
The Code of Hammurabi http://www.constitution.org/ime/hammurabi.htm
Download the Book "The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution" http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10065
Researching Constitutional Law on the Internet http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/~llou/conlaw.html
The U.S. Constitution Online http://www.usconstitution.net/
University of Michigan Documents Center http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/state.html
Bureau of Justice Statistics http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/
U.S. Department of Labor http://www.bls.gov/home.htm
Legal
Law Documents Search Engine http://www.searchlaw.com/
U.S. Department of Justice Disability Rights Law http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/cguide.htm#anchor62335
Water Law Summaries, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Department of the Interior http://www.blm.gov/nstc/WaterLaws/index.html
Global Legal Monitor, Law Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/law/public/law.html
The Law Library of Congress announces a new electronic publication, the Global Legal Monitor, which will track new legal developments from around the world. The first issue of the Global Legal Monitor may be accessed from the Law Library of Congress's opening web page by clicking on the link labeled "NEW: Global Legal Monitor (GLM).
Global Legal Information Network (GLIN), Law Library of Congress http://www.glin.gov/
The Global Legal Information Network (GLIN) is a public database of laws, regulations, judicial decisions, and other complementary legal sources contributed by governmental agencies and international organizations. These GLIN members contribute the official full texts of published documents to the database in their original language. Each document is accompanied by a summary in English and subject terms selected from the multilingual index to GLIN. All summaries are available to the public, and public access to full texts is also available in participating jurisdictions.
International
International Statistical Agencies http://www.census.gov/main/www/stat_int.html
CIA World Factbook http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
Country Studies http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
CIA Handbook of International Economic Statistics http://www.cia.gov/cia/di/products/hies/
World Bank online data http://www.worldbank.org/data/dataquery.html
World Bank Development & Economics http://econ.worldbank.org/
Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS), U.S. Department of State, annual report. 1969 - Present: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/
1861 - 1960: http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/FRUS/
Digest of International Law, Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State http://www.state.gov/s/l/c8183.htm
Health
Center for Disease Control & Prevention http://wonder.cdc.gov/data2010/
National Center for Health Statistics http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss.htm
International Committee of the Red Cross http://www.icrc.org/eng
Health Library from Healthfinder.gov, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services http://www.healthfinder.gov/library/
The webpage includes information alternative medicine, diseases & conditions, drug database, medical dictionaries, and a drug interaction checker to name just a few.
Education
National Center for Education Statistics http://nces.ed.gov/